安东尼·勒布朗rolls into to town and all the public consultation about Shannon Park is thrown out the window

消息

1.街头检查

Saturday, young people in Halifax’s Black community led a conversation at the North Library about Scot Wortley’s report on street checks and the effects of street checks on them. After the conversation, there was a march from the library to the police station (and then on to Province House) demanding an end to street checks. At the police station, El Jones read her poem, “Stop Street Checks.”

The text of the poem ishere.

2.北部纸浆

“周五，新斯科舍省纸浆厂的未来仍然不确定，因为该省要求提供更多关于将其处理8500万升以处理的废水送入诺森伯兰海峡的提议的工作。”reports Michael Tutton for the Canadian Press:

北部纸浆造纸厂已成为一个闪点，其计划将废物泵入丰富的渔业地面，将森林行业工人侵蚀渔民，环保主义者甚至P.E.I.政府 - 由于担心对龙虾收获的影响而反对该计划。

In an environmental review released Friday, Environment Minister Margaret Miller said the company must submit a “focus report” with more data in areas ranging from the effluent’s impact on drinking water in Pictou to the potential impact on marine species.

该研究的参考条款将于4月24日设定，该公司将有长达一年的时间来提供答案。

3.海湾渡轮

Writes Stephen Kimber:

海湾渡轮说，其雅茅斯渡轮服务的真正问题与政府的过度补贴或自己的价格过高无关。将其归咎于“讨厌”的反对。

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4. Blatchford

Unbeknownst to me, just as I was publishing my “Journalmalism 101” piece Friday morning castigating the Saltwire Network for publishing Christie Blatchford, Mary Campbell was doing the exact same thing in her Cape Breton Spectator. Great minds, etc.

我加入了一个链接，该网站使Blatchford的可怕写作使Blatchford表现出来，但坎贝尔在同一网站上进一步讲述：

Google her name and you’ll soon find “I Hate Christie Blatchford,” a website created by David Brooks, a fine arts specialist with a focus on the works of Van Gogh and a strong distaste for Blatchford’s purple prose which, at the time he launched the site, was gracing the pages of theGlobe & Mail. (The critique stopped once Blatchford leftG&M为了National Post).

在题为“The Blatchford Bad Writing Hall of Shame,” Brooks collects some stunning samples of Blatchfordiana, like this quote from a story about the grieving mother of a dead Canadian soldier:

But for once, in the back of that plane, picturing the lanky drink of water who was her young son on his last flight in another Herc, she couldn’t suck it up or push back the tide of emotions.

Brooks divides Blatchford’s oeuvre into five main categories and I’m putting them out there because they could come in handy for those of us who have successfully avoided her for years but may now be tempted to read her in the same way we just can’t resist looking at a wreck on the highway:

资源：I Hate Christie Blatchford

You’re welcome.

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5.贾斯汀·布雷克（Justin Brake）

(Background for this story here.)

“纽芬兰和拉布拉多的顶级法院在一项具有里程碑意义的裁决中捍卫了新闻自由的重要性，这是一名被指控蔑视法院禁令的记者案件的备受瞩目的案件，”reports Holly McKenzie-Sutter for the Canadian Press:

德里克·格林（Derek Green）大法官撤离了他发现的禁令，对记者贾斯汀·布雷克（Justin Brake）不当地适用，推翻了一个省级最高法院，裁定，罢工作为工作记者的地位并不重要。

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“The evidence from APTN, which I accept, is that Aboriginal communities have been historically underrepresented in the Canadian media,” Green wrote. “That makes freedom of the press to cover stories involving Indigenous land issues even more vital.”

他还概述了法院和其他各方的许多“非排便”考虑因素，确定是否应包括涉及抗议的新闻工作者应将其纳入单方禁令命令中。

考虑因素包括考虑该人是否从事真诚的新闻报道，没有积极协助抗议者，不干扰执法部门，以及报告的事项是否具有公共利益。

格林指出：“应特别考虑涉及原住民问题的抗议活动。”

Green decided the previous judge had erred by not considering Brake’s role as a journalist to be a material fact. He vacated the injunction and contempt notices and ruled Brake was entitled to his costs against the respondents.

This is an important victory for Brake, and an important victory for journalism in general.

6.体育场

The fix is in.

“A significant update came in the new stadium approach, which now includes a partnership with Sport Nova Scotia that would see the goal for any stadium being as a year-round community facility,”reports Philip Croucher for StarMetro Halifax:

同样，SSE创始伙伴安东尼·勒布朗（Anthony Leblanc）宣布，在他们和加拿大土地之间达成了协议的框架，概述了潜在的交易，该协议将看到现在被称为多用途社区体育和娱乐枢纽，在香农建造达特茅斯的公园遗址.

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The other news Saturday was the announcement that a letter of intent was signed between Canada Lands and SSE, outlining the parameters of a potential deal for a stadium.

According to a Canada Lands release issued Saturday, the elements of the deal include the sale of up 20 acres to SSE for a proposed stadium. The statement also said any sale is “dependent on the satisfaction of a number of commitments.”

Those commitments include SSE engaging with the public on the new proposed stadium idea, support from both the city and province, and for input from Millbrook First Nation about this, and what else might be built on the remaining Shannon Park property.

As of this morning, the Canada Lands release does not appear on加拿大土地的网站and wasn’t sent to me. Nor has the @PlanShannon Twitter account been updated since June 2018.

嘿，还记得三年前加拿大土地发布的香农公园计划吗？

请注意，缺乏体育场。甚至是一块土地的可用性。

Funny how Anthony Leblanc rolls into to town and all the years’ worth of public meetings, planning, “engagement” and so forth about Shannon Park get tossed right out of the window. I thought this was kind of rude当我第一次发布, but now it seems 100% correct:

关于香农公园的“公共咨询”是胡说八道

还记得去年庆祝香农公园重建的“公共咨询”？

就是这样《纪事先驱报》上的一些不愿透露姓名的结s:

根据周三在公开会议上揭示的一项计划，“新”香农公园将展示从安静的住宅街道到高层和商业空间的所有内容。

The long-awaited preferred concept for the redevelopment of the former Dartmouth military base, largely empty for 15 years, also includes waterfront access at several points, an urban centre, 17 acres of green space and an extensive trail and cycling system, according to plans presented by Greg Zwicker, vice-president of WSP Canada Inc. and Chris Millier, director of real estate for Canada Lands Company, which owns the 39-hectare property.

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Dartmouth city councillor Tony Mancini said he likes the concept. “It’s a really exciting opportunity,” he said, “one that can have a huge impact on HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality) and particularly Dartmouth North.”

曼奇尼说，最近几个月的公众咨询数量给他留下了深刻的印象，这在市政当局的增加。

认为他们正在参加有关香农公园重建的有意义的公众咨询的人。照片：达伦·费舍尔（Darren Fisher）。注释：哈利法克斯审查员

And MP Darren Fisher wrote about it在他的时事通讯中：

Where does it stand?
Through public engagement Canada Lands has adopted a preferred concept that fits with the community’s feedback.

They have built around core principles of vibrancy—having a vibrant urban centre, public realm—park and trail system, mobility—walkable space and space for bicycles, land use—using a range of building types and land uses, commemoration—revitalizing and recognizing the history of Shannon Park and its previous vibrancy, and finally utilizing the waterfront.

Here’s a lesson from the Halifax Examiner’s handbook on government bullshit: when someone tosses around the word “vibrancy” with abandon, understand you’re being played the fool.

I don’t know why任何onewouldever againget involved with任何哈利法克斯的“公共咨询”。我们一次又一次地了解到它们几乎总是废话，通常是通过设计，但总是通过结果。人：不要浪费时间。不要去。您可能会做一些更有用和富有成效的事情，例如观看Netflix或几天前在水槽中留下的菜肴，或者根据您的喜好抚摸狗和/或猫。

哦,现在体育新斯科舍省突然阿布t a stadium. How’d that happen?

The city’s stadium report is due to arrive in June.

7. Erratum

I misreported the names of the Canadian Press reporters who lost their jobs last week. I hadn’t been aware that Alison Auld left her job, which had the effect of saving Keith Doucette’s job.

So the departing reporters are Alison Auld, Brett Bundale, Aly Thomson, and Alex Cooke.

Remaining are reporters Michael Tutton, Michael MacDonald, and Keith Doucette. Bureau Chief Rob Roberts also remains.

That’s right: CP has lost all four of the women who were working in Halifax, leaving four men.

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Government

City

周一

No public meetings.

Tuesday

哈利法克斯地区委员会(Tuesday, 1pm, City Hall) —agenda

Province

本周没有公开会议。

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On campus

达尔豪西

周一

Irreducibility of Generalized Stern Polynomials（星期一，下午2:30，319室，Chase Building） - 梅森·麦克斯韦（Mason Maxwell）将讲话。他的摘要：

我们研究了Karl Dilcher和Larry Ericksen在2017年引入的两种类型的广义船尾多项式的不可约性。经典的经典船尾整数序列本身就出色，由Klavžar，Milutinović和Petr扩展到2007年。（z）$由$ b_0（z）= 0 $，$ b_1（z）= 1 $，对于$ n \ geq1 $ by $ b_ {2n}（z）= zb_n（z）$，$ b_ {2n+1}（z）= b_n（z）+b_ {n+1}（z）$。乌拉斯（Ulas）猜想$ b_p（z）$每当$ p $是主要的；这已通过首次$ 10^6 $ primes进行了验证，Schinzel和Dilcher，Kidwai和Tomkins证明了这一点。在这次演讲中，我们研究了广义船尾多项式的类似问题。在此过程中，我们调查了循环多项式的理论和关于某些多项式类别的不可约性的几个重要定理。我们以关于具有循环因子的可还原性的柱状多项式的猜想结尾。

陷阱,在观察epidemiolo悖论gy: How can causal inference methods help?（星期一，下午12:30，临床研究中心409室） - 吉利安·阿什利·马丁（Jillian Ashley Martin）将讲话。她的摘要：

建模结果调整和显示结果的某些传统方法可能会加剧而不是消除，偏见并导致误解结果。过度调整和对撞机分层是可以产生矛盾发现的偏见类型。对研究结果的适当解释可能会受到共同实践的阻碍，即提出和解释多个调整后的估计值的“表2谬误”。本届会议将概述因果图如何帮助识别和解决这些常见的陷阱和悖论。

Tuesday

Looking through the eyes of another: What do we know about eye movements and can we use other people’s perceptual input to alter performance(Tuesday, 11:30am, Room P4258, Life Sciences Centre) — a talk by Mike Dodd from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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在港口

05:30：Euphrates高速公路, car carrier, arrives at Autoport from Emden, Germany
06:00:热带希望, container ship, arrives at Pier 42 from Philipsburg, St. Maarten
06:00:Maersk Patras, container ship, arrives at Pier 41 from Montreal
15:30:Euphrates高速公路航行到海
16:00:Maersk Patras航行到海
16:30:热带希望, container ship, sails for Palm Beach, Florida

Where are the Canadian military ships?

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Footnotes

A not inconsiderable part of my daily email and other correspondence consists of messages to the effect of “hey, asshole, how come you’re not answering my email?”

有些事永远不会改变。

我今天没有复习。给我发送一封有关拼写错误的电子邮件。

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